where are icad's satistics...or perhaps you are the sort of person who sees the general statistics and thinks that children should be taken from their parents and given to strangers because they are more likely to be harmed by their parents...yes that's probably the way you think
Well, Kate helpfully supplies statistics in the back of her book Madeleine. On page 378: 'The majority of completed child abductions are parental/family abductions, with 16 per cent involving abduction by a stranger.
So, according to the statistics supplied by Kate (source of the statistics is on Page 378 for those interested) three is a 16% chance that Madeleine's abduction was at the hands of total strangers and an 86% chance that her abduction was carried out by her parents or family.
Given those statistics, you would think that the McCanns would want to co-operate fully with any police enquiry in order to rule themselves out. That would obviously mean answering all police questions; taking part in re-enactments if necessary; taking a lie detector test and so on.
It would presumably not involve hiring libel lawyers, dodgy detectives, extradition lawyers, media spin doctors and reputation managers. Not to mention suing the detective who was in charge of the case. Or, within a very short space of time, setting up a private company to raise money.
One would also imagine that parents whose child had disappeared and who had no prior knowledge of what had happened would try to keep a relatively open mind. That would mean exploring a number of possibilities as to what might have happened including Madeleine wandering off. It would not involve jumping to an immediate conclusion about what had happened.
Every aspect of their behaviour and most of what they have said implies they know what happened to Madeleine, in my opinion.
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